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BRISLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brisling mean?
• BRISLING (noun)
The noun BRISLING has 2 senses:
1. small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines
2. small herring processed like a sardine
Familiarity information: BRISLING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
brisling; sprat
Hypernyms ("brisling" is a kind of...):
herring (valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled)
Holonyms ("brisling" is a part of...):
brisling; Clupea sprattus; sprat (small herring processed like a sardine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small herring processed like a sardine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
brisling; Clupea sprattus; sprat
Hypernyms ("brisling" is a kind of...):
sardine (any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned)
Meronyms (parts of "brisling"):
brisling; sprat (small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines)
Holonyms ("brisling" is a member of...):
Clupea; genus Clupea (type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings)
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